adjective, straighter, straightest. 1. without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path. 2. exactly vertical or horizontal; in a perfectly vertical or horizontal plane: a straight table. 3. (of a line) generated by a point moving at a constant velocity with respect to another point.
In the order of The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale are preceded by The Physician's Tale. The Physician's Tale is a harrowing tale about a judge who plots with a churl [low fellow] to abduct a beautiful young woman; rather than allow her to be raped, her father beheads her.n the General Prologue of the Tales, the Pardoner is introduced with these lines: With hym ther rood a gentil Pardoner. Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer, That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.
For the town, see Clemency, Luxembourg. For the English actress, novelist, musician, journalist and radio presenter, see Clemency Burton-Hill. A pardon is a government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime, to be free and absolved of that conviction, as if never convicted.